Process of Growing:  Understanding Your Preschooler
  "Source Book for Early Childhood Education"
"Center for Parenting Education"

Proverbs 22:6
New American Standard Bible6 Train up a child [a]in the way he should go,
Even when he grows older he will not abandon it.

​1 Year:

• Does the opposite of most instructions
• Seldom a verbal command
• Uses "No" as a chief word
• Is not able to wait, NOW is important
• Cannot stand frustration
• Treats people like objects
• No concept of sharing
• May tantrum easily, immature emotionally
• Boundless energy, needs outlets
• Can be distracted or lured away from a forbidden object​​

2 Year Old:

• Enjoys playing alongside another child in parallel play
• Needs much individual attention
• Very Negative
• Violent Emotions
• Dependent
• Fears Separations
• Insists on routine
• Language :  begins using short sentences
• Very Active
• Motor skills unevenly developed

3 Year Old:

• Usually adaptable and amiable
• Friendly with other children
• Needs individual attention; wants to stay close to an adult and sit in a lap
• Wants to be helpful; may drop or breakthings in the process
• Eager to please; needs praise
• Is talkative, imitative, imaginative, inquistive
• Vocabuloary is increasing
• Can usually take care of personal needs
• Active; shows fatgue by being irritable and restless
• Usually needs a nap

4 Year Old:

• Versatile and contradictory; given to extremes in behavior
• Often negative; prefers to say "no" first
• Constantly Active; not given to restraint
• Noisy and sometimes destructinve 
• Imitative in laguage, manners and habits
• Highly imaginative
• Great Curiosity; Wants to know "Why"
• Needs much patience and understanding
• Needs simple, clear routine, limited choices
• Needs more physical activity and wider scope of activities
• Needs opportunities to give and take, to play cooperatively
• Does not always get along with other children